1862 August 18 "Clifton," Fauquier County, Va.

[from the diary of Anne Madison Willis Ambler]

Monday, August 18, 1862
I must record a piece of Yankee
impudence.  I want to  remember it, so that
I may not err again & encourage any
one in the [?]  Capt Seabach
has been so kind to the neighbourhood
people that Pa asked him here & we
all went out to see him as he is a German
& does not willingly come & is only a militia Capt.
-But to day he presumed on our kindness &
brought a Md capt Lieut here visiting as a
beau. We did not know he was in the
sitting room--or none of us would have gone
in--Capt. S. is a married man--Pa
says that he heard him ask Tommie where
the ladies were--but he thought we would
not come in & so he pretended not to
hear - The girls are quite troubled
about it, as they fear he may be troublesome
--I did not like Capt. S to day either
He talked quite violently--said they would
bring thousands against us & we would be
forced to submit. that this thing must
end--many have taken the oath & Pa
would have to do it--before four weeks
passed over his head---

[as transcribed in 1972 by her granddaughter, Anne Madison Wright Baylor]

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